The writer and journalist Katherine Palmer Gordon discusses her new book This Place is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands (Harbour Publishing, 2023), with Joseph Planta.

This Place is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands by Katherine Palmer Gordon (Harbour Publishing, 2023). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: This Place is Who We Are

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

There’s a new book out, a terrific collection of stories and insights. Katherine Palmer Gordon, the book’s author, gives us a look at inspiring people in the vast region of central and northern coastal British Columbia, which is the homelands of more than two dozen First Nations. It also has one of the largest remaining coastal temperate rainforests in the world. The challenges of climate change, and the ongoing reckoning with colonisation, are discussed by the people that Katherine talks to in the stories that she has gathered in the book. It’s got a great title too This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands. She joins me now to talk about the genesis of the book, the inspiring work going on with resource management, language, environmental law, as well as healing both physically and spiritually. We meet some fascinating people, names to watch for, as well as their plans for a better world. Katherine Palmer Gordon is the author of six books of non-fiction including We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us: Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia. She is an award-winning freelance journalist who divides her time between Gabriola Island, and Auckland, New Zealand, where she joins me from today. There will be an event for the book, Saturday evening, 17 June 2023 at the Bill Reid Gallery here in Vancouver. Visit https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/this-place-is-who-we-are-book-launch-in-vancouver-tickets-636803184467?aff=erelexpmlt to register. This book is from Harbour Publishing. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Katherine Palmer Gordon; Ms. Gordon, good morning.

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